Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Small Game Just a Couple More Weeks

Our spring squirrel season opens here in Arkansas on May 8th, and runs for about a month. Don't usually have a great deal of success but man! it is fun just getting out in the woods again. I don't turkey hunt so it's been a long couple of months since the last hunting season closed Feb 15th.

With any kind of luck on the Sat morning opener, I'll be about 90 miles NE of home at one of our WMA's that usually has a pretty good population of bushytails (both grey and fox squirrels). It is about 17,000 acres of prime bottomland hardwoods, Beech, Ash, Hickory, Locust, Native & Bitter Pecans, and several varieties of Oak, crisscrossed with a number of small creeks, sloughs, ditches, etc., and bordered on two sides by the White and Little Red rivers.

I plan to go up on Friday afternoon with my little P/U camper, and be in the woods at daybreak Sat morning. There are a dozen or more lakes varying from a few acres to a couple hundred and the fishing is usually good <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />, so if the squirrel hunting fails, maybe I can catch a mess of fish <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />.

Following pic is my rig there on opening weekend last fall with results of two morning hunts (tails only, cleaned squirrels are in the ice chest). Probably won't do as well this trip but I always have a great time no matter what <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> .